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What do you do when someone with more power, more leverage and more rights keeps hurting you, and there seem to be no consequences for them at all? Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan answers a question many Muslims quietly carry: the feeling that injustice goes unanswered and that nothing will ever change.
He explains that the power an oppressor holds is given by Allah and can be taken back by Him at any moment. تُؤْتِي الْمُلْكَ مَن تَشَاءُ وَتَنزِعُ الْمُلْكَ مِمَّن تَشَاءُ (3:26). Those who think their cruelty has put them ahead are making a horrible calculation and what they hoard and withhold will become a collar around their necks on Judgment Day (3:180).
The relief Allah promises is real, but its timing and form belong to Him, not to us. That is no excuse for cowardice. We are still called to stand up to the tyrant, even when we are small, and leave the rest in Allah's hands.
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07/01/2026
When two groups of believers are fighting, who does Allah address? He doesn't speak to the two groups engaged in conflict. He speaks to the rest of the community. He addresses you: "...then make peace between them." (49:9) فَأَصْلِحُوا۟ بَيْنَهُمَا
Your role is clear: make peace between them. But notice what making peace actually means. It's not being a neutral messenger who carries complaints from one side to the other. That's not reconciliation, that's amplification. You'd be spreading the fire, not extinguishing it.
True peacemakers do something far more difficult; they absorb harsh words and difficult emotions from both sides, but they filter what they heard. Instead of echoing back the bitterness, they choose to say something kinder in return.
The word for reconciliation used in the ayah is 'aslihu' — it means to repair and restore, the opposite of corruption and decay. This is what a peacemaker does, they repair the broken relationships and restore the dignity between people. They don't fuel the flames in the name of making peace. They actually repair.
This kind of work requires emotional intelligence and spiritual maturity. You have to hear someone's pain without absorbing their anger toward the other side. You have to understand their hurt without endorsing their resentment.
This reflection is from the latest installment in the Deeper Look series on Surah Al-Hujurat with Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan. Follow along at https://byna.tv/342
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